It's pretty good at that time, but even so...
Hello and Good Evening, it's HaroFreak, here to review your Movie!
Just a quick foreword for the Animator who made this, I have watched this animation many years ago, and keeping in mind that this was made using an older version of Flash which was comparingly user unfriendly to the ones we use today, I still think there is plenty of room for improvment. Anyway, back to the review.
An overview for this movie, if anything, consists of the ever-so-popular Final Fantasy VII rivals; Cloud and Sephiroth, battling it out on some plains far away from Civilisation. Well, this battle sure started pretty well, but as many people said, it ended really soon, despite it happening so in the game.
Anyway, onto the In-Depth Analysis:
Your graphics mostly consist of mouse-drawn images along with a slight hint of graidents used in the background and some effects. The frame-by-frame animation is somewhat decent, but I would really prefer more than one sword clash, one fireball and then a single finisher. As for special effects, I think you can put a "Text-Box" to show what each character is using instead of putting it right onto the stage? Asides from that, the graphics are so-so.
The music used for the battle is the well-known Boss Battle Theme "Those who Fight Further", straight from the Final Fantasy VII game. It's a nice theme, but what got to me is the absence of sound. I understand that it's rare to find anyone who can voice the two characters well, but Sound Effects are really dropping marks from my review. Try to mix in at least a clash of the blade or two should liven things up.
The style is what made many people turned away though, but keep in mind that I am not trying to tell you that your animation's horrible. But rather "It's too short". Cloud finishing Sephiroth off using his trademark Omnislash is quite a finisher, but it somewhat lacked in between. Perhaps Cloud performs some magic of his own?
Interactivity deserves nothing here, though I would have preferred to give it an "N/A" as your animation is so small in filesize that it should stream well even on a 56K Modem. But for presentation and the 14.4K User's sake, I strongly recommend adding a Pre-Loader if anything.
In summary, this animation could have been good, but it falls due to its short length. Better luck next time.
This is HaroFreak, signing out.